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by rfv6723
351 days ago
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If you have worked or lived in China, you will know that Chinese open-source software industry is a totally shitshow. The law in China offers little protection for open-source software. Lots of companies use open-source code in production without proper license, and there is no consequence. Western internet influencers hype up Chinese open-source software industry for clicks while Chinese open-source developers are struggling. These open-weight model series are planed as free-trial from the start, there is no commitment to open-source. |
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That kind of downplays that Chinese open weights are basically the only option for high quality weights you can run yourself, together with Mistral. It's not just influencers who are "hyping up Chinese open-source" but people go where the options are.
> there is no commitment to open-source
Welcome to open source all around the world! Plenty of non-Chinese projects start as FOSS and then slowly move into either fully proprietary or some hybrid-model, that isn't exactly new nor not expected, Western software industry even pioneered a new license (BSL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License) that tries to look as open source as possible while not actually being open source.